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Wake County school leaders plan to provide locally many of the due-process rights that state legislators removed from teachers as part of efforts to eliminate tenure.Click to Continue »

Gov. Pat McCrory is still reviewing the pardon application submitted Sept. 11 by Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who spent three decades in prison before being declared innocent and freed…Click to Continue »

The Wake County Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed at its Monday meeting to award $1 million to a Holly Springs stadium park and $650,000 to an N.C. State museum. The…Click to Continue »

U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has written an online essay to explain why she opposed a requirement in an abortion-ban bill last month, and to say that she's "appalled by the…Click to Continue »

State Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Cary Republican, lost his Super Bowl bet and spent Monday afternoon praising the New England Patriots on the House floor.Click to Continue »

Sir Walter Wally in Raleigh and Snerd of Garner apparently failed to see their shadows early Monday afternoon, forecasting an early spring.Click to Continue »

State transportation engineers, N.C. Zoo officials and neighbors of the popular park near Asheboro have tentatively agreed on a new design for a connector road that will bring traffic directly…Click to Continue »

One arrest by Raleigh police and a second by Cary detectives brought charges that covered 19 residential break-ins in the two communities, including the theft of six guns in one…Click to Continue »

Democrats and left-leaning groups complained that the new maps intentionally deflated their candidates’ chances in the state and federal elections, but courts have upheld the redistricting effort – which is…Click to Continue »

Wake County school officials say the dropping of the names of the four small schools that make up East Wake High School to rename the facility marks the beginning of…Click to Continue »